It's more shallow than that: dog consumption was already nearly eradicated except among the poorest in South Korean society. This is a cheap optics win for a fascist administration trying to take eyes off of the failures of President Yoon's economic policy, or him targeting women, minorities, and disabled people.

It's good that dog meat is banned, but it was already rapidly fading. It wasn't a delicacy, it was for the poorest of the poor and now Yoon gets to pat himself on the back.

Without knowing, I suppose it depends on whether the dog meat industry specifically had poor standards.

If for some reason it did (like it was unregulated or something), and this ban is actually enforced, then I suppose this would improve things.

I do acknowledge that I know nothing on the subject though.

I'm assuming that the down voters of this comment didn't visit the site.

I love how if you click "I get it now" they assume you now don't want any animal killed instead of you having rationalised that proper dog meat is okay to consume.

The reason they are generally banning dog meat is not really because it's a dog, but because it's linked with animal theft iirc. I don't know anything so if this is wrong I'm wrong lmao.

chickens are intelligent

They had me convinced until that point. Clearly they've never raised chickens.

I don't understand I want to order some dog meat? What kind of scam is this.

But where can I actually get some dog meat to eat? Gotta at least taste it to see if it's nice.

I get the joke, but it was a fascist admin that banned the dog meat, far from a leftist administration. Yoon just wanted a cheap optics win to distract from his horrible economic policies and targeting women, disabled people, and minorities, despite dog meat having close to no consumption anyways. Dog consumption was only popular as an extremely cheap cut of meat during and after the Korean War, it isn't a delicacy and only the poorest of the poor were eating it recently.

::: spoiler Eat it. Eat the bug!

Bring on the rat burger. (No salt.)

What is the definition of ethical? Can killing something that doesn't want to die be considered ethical? Does "but they're yummy" work as a valid excuse to violating the definition of "ethical"?

I think it's wild that people can't differentiate between pets and livestock. It doesn't require a lot of emotional maturity and yet people conflate the two constantly.

c/aneurysmprotesting

Plants feel pain and communicate with each other.